Media Limitation Quotes

We weren't allowed to watch TV as kids.

A CD is only a snapshot of the songs at a given time.

I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.

We didn't even have a T.V. in my house until I was 13. My dad called it the 'idiot box.'

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

Inasmuch as it's a culture, cinema is the only thing at our disposal with which we can recognize ourselves in today's images. As an instrument it's inevitably inadequate, but it's the only one.

I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an antiquated form, and there's no sense grieving. Music is forever, there will always be songs. It's exciting that we're not limited to the media any more. I don't hold a precious view of my work, that it exists outside of social constructs or the confines of a platform.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one.

I've raised my daughter with no television.

I couldn't find any way to tell the truth in a regular newspaper.

I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old.

If you pay close attention, you'll notice we continually hear about basically the same 150 celebrities.

There's no real music on television unless it's music television, and then it's expensive videos, which people like me can't do.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media.

I went to the Rudolf Steiner School in New York, and you're not allowed to watch TV.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential. If a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold.

It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your life.